Site Management (9 September 1998)

2 storey stone house with a dual pitched slate roof and slate-cheeked, flat-roofed dormers (now boarded-up). A single storey lean-to with stone walls and a corrugated iron roof sits at the north end. Liberton Bank was once the home of Mary Burton, a pioneer of the Scottish women's suffrage movement who persuaded the University of Edinburgh to accept female students. In the 1860s, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1893) was sent to live at the house as a guest of Burton in order to escape his father who was prone to depression and alcoholism. Mary was godmother to Arthur's sister Caroline, born 1866.